Book completed

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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, by Katherine May. After enjoying her other two books, I began reading this one in the spring but soon set it aside. Not only was it the wrong season, literally, for the book, I also was having a hard time relating to the litany of negative things and negativity with which the book began. I picked it up again yesterday, though, after several days of dizziness had developed into a full-blown migraine, and I was having a hard time reading most other books. This one, however, completely hit the spot. May writes beautifully, and as she explores how people cope and get through difficult times, she continually surprised me. Swimming in the cold ocean as a cure for depression? I was also interested in the discussion, late in the book, of the many ways that a British person's voice can experience social pressures and judgment. Those of us raised in the Pacific Northwest have one of the most neutral accents in the English-speaking world, so I've never encountered anything like that - another form of privilege, I suppose.